Recycling
What color bins are typically used for recycling?
What is Blue/Green?
This term describes tiny plastic pieces less than 5 millimeters long that pollute oceans and harm marine life.
What are microplastics?
This tool is commonly used to safely pick up trash.
What is a trash grabber or litter picker?
birds and animals often mistake small bits of brightly colored plastic or trash for this, which can make them sick or block their stomachs
What is food?
This term measures the total set of greenhouse gas emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event, or product, typically expressed in equivalent tons of CO2.
What is a carbon footprint?
What two things should you do with a bottle before putting it in the recycle bin?
What is rinse it out and remove the cap?
This most commonly found single-use item on beach cleanups is made of plastic and used to drink beverages.
what is a straw?
Gloves are often worn during clean ups to avoid contact with these?
What are bacteria or sharp objects?
True or False - hydrocarbon degrading bacteria are often utilized in bioremediation to clean up oil spills in marine environments.
What is true?
This term is used to describe food waste that has been broken down into nutrient rich soil.
What is compost?
Which is thrown out more, Cans or Bottles?
What are cans?
Plastics can take anywhere from 20-500 _____ to decompose naturally.
What are years?
This five-letter word can mean a major victory or the act of tidying a floor with a broom.
What is a sweep?
A lost or abandoned commercial fishing net that continues to entangle and kill marine life is often referred to as a __________ in the context of ecosystem cleanup.
What are "Ghost Nets"?
Recycling one ton of this common classroom and office material saves 17 trees and 7,000 gallons of water.
What is paper?
Unlike glass and metal, which can be recycled endlessly without losing quality, this common petroleum-based packaging material typically degrades in quality each time it is processed, a limitation known as downcycling.
What is Plastic?
This term is used to describe a crowded, confused or disorderly collection of things, which can contribute to high levels of stress, lower focus, and bad air quality.
What is clutter?
The name of this highly porous cleaning tool—traditionally harvested from the ocean floor—comes from the Greek word spongos.
What is a sponge?
This biome is known for cleaning the air by trapping air borne particles and consuming CO2/producing O2 through photosynthesis.
What are forests?
In home and industrial composting, organic materials like fresh fruit scraps and green grass clippings are referred to as "green" materials because they provide a high amount of this specific chemical element necessary for microbial growth.
What is Nitrogen?
This creative subset of recycling transforms waste materials, byproducts, or unwanted products into new items of greater utility, artistic expression, or environmental value.
What is Upcycling?
This clothing business model, has contributed heavily to large amounts of textile waste in recent years?
What is Fast Fashion?
This spill marked the largest spill and clean-up event of oil in US history to date.
What is the Deepwater Horizon event?
This biome utilizes dense root systems and anerobic soils to act like natures kidneys, filtering out sediments and denitrifying water and soil.
What are wetlands?
Represented by the resin code #1, this clear plastic is commonly used for single-use water and soda bottles and is one of the most widely recycled plastics globally.
What is Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET or PETE)?